A with macron (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ā.

A with macron (А̄ а̄; italics: А̄ а̄) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with macron (Ā ā Ā ā).

A with macron
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[ɑː]
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

A with macron is used in the Aleut (Bering dialect),^[1] Evenki, Ingush, Mansi, Nanai, Orok, Ulch, Kildin Sami, Selkup, and Chechen languages.^{[citation needed]}

A with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages in some dialects.^[2]

Usage

South Slavic languages

A with macron is used in the South Slavic languages mostly in Bulgarian usually used before or after another stressed vowel: глāвà, крāкà, овчāрè, ковāчè, юнāцѝ, and граждāнè.^[2][3]

Computing codes

Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter А̄ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as А+◌̄ (U+0304).

Character information

Preview	А		а		̄
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A		COMBINING MACRON
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1040	U+0410	1072	U+0430	772	U+0304
UTF-8	208 144	D0 90	208 176	D0 B0	204 132	CC 84
Numeric character reference	А	А	а	а	̄	̄
Named character reference	А		а

See also

• A a : Latin letter A
• Ā ā : Latin letter A with macron - a Latvian, Latgalian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
• А а : Cyrillic letter А
• Cyrillic characters in Unicode